Turn DeepSeek Harness
into a research workbench
11 curated research plugins you browse in Settings and install with one click — literature search, full-text reading, references, writing review and research workbenches. No telemetry, and the list keeps growing.
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-research
Why this and not the full market
The official market lists over a thousand plugins and does it well. What it cannot answer is which of them are for someone doing research.
Curated, not complete
11 entries, hand-picked, code read and described across literature, references, writing and review, and workbenches — rather than a thousand for you to sift.
One click
11 of them install and uninstall from the panel. Changes need a restart: a host launched from the desktop app restarts from the panel and confirms itself back, and one launched in a terminal gets handed the command — nothing can restart it back into your terminal for you.
Limits stated
Every entry says what a plugin actually does and where it stops — which papers need institutional access, which searches are billed and which are free.
Asked before it acts
Every install, removal and restart is confirmed first, naming the plugin, the profile it lands in, and the exact command that will run.
One public list
The catalog the panel fetches is the list on this site, entry for entry — there is no second one. Submissions are welcome, competitors included — the form or a GitHub issue. Entries AI4Scholar authors are labelled.
No telemetry
The panel makes exactly one network request: fetching this public catalog. What you install and what you search never leaves your machine.
What you install
Three packages, one layer each, usable on their own.
dsh-research · Entry point
The research plugin market in Settings: browse the curated index, install and remove with one click, restart from the panel. The first one you install.
dsh-ai4scholar · Capability
38 literature tools across Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Google Scholar, arXiv, bioRxiv/medRxiv, DOI full text, auto-cite and figures.
dsh-academy · Rules
An academic persona and five anti-fabrication rules: never cite what was not read, say so when unsure.
Where someone else does it better
We point at them rather than rebuilding it. These are not installed by default; append them to the command above.
dsh-cite · Citations
GB/T 7714 (the Chinese national standard) plus APA / MLA / Chicago, with no runtime dependencies. We do not cover this.
dsh-zotero · Local library
Lets the agent search your own Zotero library and read its notes and annotations. We do online search; this does the library you already have.
To add them: append dsh-cite dsh-zotero.
And a curated plugin index
11 installable research plugins, hand-picked and categorised, with stars and licences refreshed weekly. What the panel shows is this list — there is no second one.